Shayna (

Yiddish Yiddish (, or , ''yidish'' or ''idish'', , ; , ''Yidish-Taytsh'', ) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated during the 9th century in Central Europe, providing the nascent Ashkenazi community with a ver ...

: שיינע;

Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken *Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ...

: Szejna) is a feminine name of

origin, meaning "beautiful" or "lovely", and evocative of the Yiddish phrase "אַ שיינע מיידל" ("a shayne maydel", or "a lovely girl"). Its

Hebrew Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...

equivalent is Yaffa (יפה) or Yafit (יַפִית); during the years following the

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...

, the name Shayna (and its Arabic cognate, Jamila) was often Hebraicized to Yaffa upon immigrating to

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

or, outside Israel, as a post-Holocaust distancing of diasporic heritage.Anita Diamant, ''New Jewish Baby Book: Names, Ceremonies & Customs―A Guide for Today's Families'', Second Edition, Jewish Lights, New York, 2005, p. 23

People named Shaina or Shayna

* Shaina Magdayao, (born 1989) Filipina actress, dancer, singer and model *

Shaina Sandoval Shaina Sandoval (born January 10, 1992) is an American actress. Career Shaina Sandoval was born to Samuel and Lisa Sandoval in Albuquerque, New Mexico on January 10, 1992. She moved to Dallas, Texas when she was a year old, and lived there for ...

, (born 1992) American actress * Shayna Baszler, martial artist * Shayna Fox (born 1984), American voice actress *Shayna Hubers (born 1991), perpetrator of the

murder of Ryan Poston On October 12, 2012, Ryan Carter Poston, an American attorney from Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, was shot to death by his on-again off-again girlfriend Shayna Michelle Hubers. After a trial in the Campbell County circuit court, Hubers was convicte ...

Shayna Levine Shayna Levine is an American film and TV actress. Levine joined the cast of ABC's ''All My Children'' on September 24, 2002, playing the role of Lily Montgomery (she is the third actress to play Lily), the adopted autistic daughter of Jackson M ...

, actress * Shayna Nackoney (born 1982), synchronized swimmer *

Shayna Richardson Shayna Richardson (born 1984) is a student skydiver from Joplin, Missouri who made headlines in 2005 after she survived a skydiving accident and fell face first in a parking lot, and doctors later discovered she was a couple weeks pregnant at the ...

(born 1984), Missouri skydiver who survived a fall *

Shayna Rose Shayna Rose (born Shayna Rose Mordue; November 3, 1983) is an American actress and singer. Early life Rose moved to Los Angeles in 2002 after declining a scholarship to the Berklee College of Music in Boston. She went between acting, singing, ...

(born 1983), soap opera actress * Shayne-Feygl Szapiro (Szejne Fejgl Szapiro-Michalewicz,

Dina Blond Dina Blond (1 March 1887 - 1985) was a prominent member of the Jewish Labour Bund in Poland and a prolific Yiddish translator. She translated over 30 works of world literature into Yiddish from German, English, and Russian. She was born Shayne- ...

, 1887-1985), member of the Jewish Labour Bund in Poland and a prolific Yiddish translator

References

{{given name Feminine given names Yiddish words and phrases